Video Guide

Need a little help navigating the hundreds of videos on chess.com? This evolving work-in-progress article is an attempt to organize them for you. Split first by general area of the game (Opening, Tactics, Strategy, Endgame, Other); and then by difficulty level.

White Against the Petroff - This series of 5 videos for intermediate-advanced players shows a few different ways for white to play against the Petroff Defense, in the mainline and in the Cochrane Gambit.

Amazing Games for Beginners - This has a bit of everything: tactics, strategy, endgames, thought process... As the name implies, this is flashy, aesthetic material that will help you remember what you learn, but everything is presented in a way accessible for beginners.

Isolated Queen Pawns - This series takes a look at one of the most important pawn structures in chess, which characteristically comes out of the Queen's Gambit, the Nimzo Indian, the Caro-Kann, the French, and the Alapin Sicilian among other mainstream openings.

The Principle of Two Weaknesses - One of the most fundamental strategic concepts in chess, but a difficult one to employ, in the middlegame or endgame. This series starts off at an intermediate level.

Playing with a Space Advantage- Space and Time work in harmony for great chess players, and this video series by GM Lenderman (as well as the prequel videos by IM David Pruess) will get you started on the right path!

Practical Defense - In this series, Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan implores all Chess.com members to understand and appreciate the difficult art of finding accurate defensive moves when under practical pressure. For advanced players, this series is solid gold!

Endgame

King and Pawn Endgames - You have to know K+P endgames in order to play other endgames, since trades can always come up! This is where anyone who wants to play a quality endgame must start.

Rook and Pawn Endgames - Rook and Pawn endgames are the most common type of endgame, and thus they are a natural second endgame to study. They are very tricky though!

Fun And Educational

How to Improve Your Chess- In this video series GM Kaidanov lays out the steps for a chess player to improve entire approach to the game. From practical to psychological! He provides all the steps needed for recognizing and eliminating your mistakes and patterns. Enjoy!

Simply the Best: Garry Kasparov- In this video series IM Shankland reviews the life and games of the greatest chess player of all time: Former World Champion Garry Kasparov! The series needs no further introduction other than a word to the wise: If you consider yourself a serious and aspiring chess player, studying the games of the greatest player ever might not be a bad idea!

jadedog, all free videos are displayed in a blue box on the right hand side of the video home page-- but only non-diamonds can see that box. so just tell your friend(s) to go to http://www.chess.com/videos and they will find the videos available to them.

what would go into middlegame that would not go into strategy or tactics? and how long does it take to find something in this list? if we have the resources to thoroughly go through all our series and add them to this, then we may need to break things down further, but for now this seems quite serviceable.

Is there anyway to quickly find out if there is a specific video or article I am interested in? For instance, if I only wanted to access videos and articles on the Ruy Lopez opening, how would I do this?

I really love Khachiyans videos (Ive literally gone over 100 of them, from page 13 to page 3 in his video archives), but they'd need their own section since in his games he covers the opening ideas, tactical ideas, positional ideas, and endgame ideas pretty extensively. Like if you want to see how a game should be played, with a chain of logic linking each move and transitioning from the opening to the ending, see his videos. Ive even seen less strong players saying they gained insight from his videos, though the videos are advanced since its basically a grandmaster going through his complete thinking process in games he, his students, or famous masters played.

Also if you look under rook and pawn endgames, you'll see Rensch put Khachiyan's series on rook and pawn endgames along side his own.

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